Seyfarth Shaw LLP has made a resource freely available: Seyfarth is pleased to provide you with our 50-State Survey of Health Care Information Privacy Laws. The world continues to struggle with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and pressures mount on health care organizations to properly share personal health information. While resources abound on how federal…
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Clearview’s Face Surveillance Still Has No First Amendment Defense
A commentary by Adam Schwartz on EFF last week begins: Clearview AI extracts faceprints from billions of people, without their consent, and uses these faceprints to help police identify suspects. This does grave harm to privacy, free speech, information security, and racial justice. It also violates the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), which prohibits a…
President Biden Signs Executive Order Encouraging Greater Regulation of Tech and Communications Companies
Christopher W. Savage, Christopher G. Renner, and David M. Gossett of Davis Wright Tremaine write: On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued a far-reaching Executive Order seeking to fight market concentration and anticompetitive practices across the entire U.S. economy, stating that “[a] fair, open, and competitive marketplace has long been a cornerstone of the American economy, while…
Capitol Siege Prosecutors Lose Bid for Deloitte Help With Data
Bernie Pazanowski reports: Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP is barred from helping federal prosecutors and other government staff sort and organize the huge volumes of electronic data and other evidence it has collected from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a federal court in Washington said Friday. The investigation into the events has generated…